The General Government and Capital Outlay Subcommittee heard an educational presentation on capital funding basics before tabling three bills — HB 660, HB 793, and HB 1329 — with the latter two producing 4-to-2 vote splits indicating internal disagreement among members.
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Delegate Reid argued that HB 793 conflicts with existing provisions already in House Bill 30 and moved to table the bill. Delegate Waksman was present in the audience as the patron, but no opposition statement to tabling was recorded on the record from Waksman or any other named member. The 4-to-2 vote indicates two members voted against tabling, but their identities are not recorded in the transcript.
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“It's been pretty much three to three and a half percent for over 100 years, averaging out per year. But since COVID and some of the market conditions, it drove up the cost of construction in aggregate of about 35%.”
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Sign in to subscribeAll right, members and to the public, we welcome you to the Monday, February 2nd meeting subcommittee meeting of general government and capital outlay of appropriations. We have a few items on the agenda for consideration. Consideration. Clerk, please open the row. Members, signify your presence. And we do have a quorum. All right, presenting the items will be staff member presentees for us if we could. Ms. Peeks, please start with item HB 660. Oh, did you want to handle bills first, sir? I'm sorry? Did you want to handle bills first or presentation first? We'll have a presentation by Ms. Peeks. Ms. Peeks, put me on my toes. All right. I know you'll have nothing else to do but sit here and listen to me talk about capital all day, which I could do, but I will try to keep this fast. Typically when we talk about capital in this room, it's usually like what's funded or what's in. But today, at the request of the chairman, wanted to focus on some, some basics. So you're reminded of the cost reviews and the different ways that we have cost savings to rein in construction that's more expensive than…
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